THE BRITISH CABINET.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 270, 13 November 1924, Page 5

THE BRITISH CABINET.

« ( PARLIAMENT MEETS DEC. 2. A SHORT SESSION ONLY. I THE ZINOVIEFF LETTER. fßv ' n >1- -Tress Association.— Copyright.) ißocoived 1.30 p.m.i IX>NDOX, November 12. Mr. 1.. <". >t R. Amery (Secretary of Stat' , for the Colonies), who ie indisposed. If ft a siik bed specially to attend yesterday's meeting of Cabinet, and returned to bed us .-oon as the meeting ended. He hopes to l>c at the Colonial Office in a few days. j The Parliamentary correspondent of t,no "Daily Telegraph" says that Cabinet haa decided that Parliament will meet on December 2 for the purpose of electing a Speaker and swearing in members, which will occupy several days. I The State opening and the Kings. Speech will follow on December 8 or 0. i The debate on the Addrcas-in-Reply will conclude on December 12, after which throe minor bills will be passed. The House will adjourn on December 17, or IS until February. | The Cabinet decided that the matter of the ZinoviefT letter could not be allowed to remain where it was left by Mr. Mac.Donald's Administration in view of the Soviet's demand for an apology j and the punishment of the persons! involved in the alleged forgery.— (A. and N.Z. CabJ*-) ARE WE AMERICAN ? SIR A. GEDDES ON US. I LONDON, November 11. Sir Auckland Geddee, in an outspoken address to the English-speaking Union, | said the Dominions spoke of Britain as "the Motherland," a term affectionate in intention. It gave the feeling of old age if not of eenility. America exercised an influence on the Dominions in a way that no British influence affected America. It often happened that when the Dominions looked towards Britain they found no sympathetic answer or understanding. Then the Dominions looked to Washington and found their difficulties often better understood there than at Downing Street. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) FURTHER APPOINTMENTS. DUCHESS OF ATHOIX ADDED. LONDON, November 12. Further Ministerial appointments are announced as follow, the names in parentheses being those of the holders of tho same offices in the former Baldwin Ministry:— Sir T. W. H. Inskip, Solicitor-General. (No change.) Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. W. Guinness, Financial Secretary to the Treasury. (No change.) Mr. -William Watson, Lord Advocate for Scotland. (No change.) Mr. David Fleming, Solicitor-General for Scotland. (Mr. F. C. Thomson.) Mr. G. T. Locker-Lampeon, Undersecretary for the Home Department. (No change.) Earl of Onslow, Under-Secretary for War. (Colonel Wilfrid Ashley.) Mr. A. M. Samuel, Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department* (No appointment.) Sir Phillip Sassoon, Under-Secretary to the Air Ministry. (Duke of Sutherland.) / Colonel J. T. C. Moorc-Brabaion, Parliamentary Secretary for Transport. (No change.) Dnchess of Atholl, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education. (Earl of Onslow.) Sir William Mitchell Thompson, Postmaster - General (Sir L. Worthington-Evans.) Major G. C. Tyron, Minister for Pensions. (No change.) Colonel Wilfrid Ashley, Minister for Transport. larl Wlnterton, . Under-Secretary for India. (No change.) Mr. Ronald McNeill, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. (No change.) The Under-Secretaryship for the Colonies has been offered to the Hon. W. Ormsby Gore, who held the poet in Mr. Baldwin's last Ministry. He is at present in East Africa, and his acceptance has not vet been received.— (Reuter.) THE PARTY FUNDS. (Received 9.30 a.m.) i liONDON, November 12. An unrr nected development is reported in Liberal circles. Ninety-seven defeated candidates, headed by Mr. -W. M. R. Pringle, (former M.P. for Yorks (Penietone) have demanded participation in the party's finance and politics.—"Sun."